Ben Forta to present at UK ColdFusion User Group on 22nd June
by Niklas Richardson 3:11 pm Thursday, 9 June 2005.

We are extremely lucky this month to have Ben Forta visiting us in London. We have rescheduled this month’s user group meeting to allow him to present at the UK ColdFusion User Group. He will be presenting on Event Gateways in CFMX 7.

The meeting will take place on 22nd June at City University in London from 6:30pm onwards.

Here is the presentation synopsis:


“Event Gateways, introduced in ColdFusion MX 7, open ColdFusion to integration with all sorts of back-ends and technologies. From asynchronous processing, to JMS, to SMS and IM … event gateways radically change what ColdFusion is capable of and what your applications can accomplish.”

Register for the meeting.

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CFDUMP that Flash Form!!
by Niklas Richardson 4:07 pm Wednesday, 1 June 2005.

Ever wanted to see what is created under the hood when you use Flash Forms? Well, don’t worry you can.

Andi Hindle from Macromedia showed a neat trick at Scotch on the Rocks last week. If you name your Flash Form and then after the form use CFDUMP, it will in fact dump the MXML. Put the CFDUMP inbetween PRE tags and then it will format the output nicely.

<cfform action="" method="POST" format="Flash" name="frmDumpThis">
...
</cfform>

<pre>
<cfdump var="#frmDumpThis#">
</pre>

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Splitting Flash Form item labels over multiple lines
by Niklas Richardson 3:41 pm .

Splitting long item labels in Flash Forms in ColdFusion MX 7 couldn’t be easier. All you need to do is use:

#chr(10)#

Or even:

#chr(13)#

They both work.

Here’s a screenshot:

Multiple_Line_Example.png

Here’s the code snippet:

<cfform action="" method="POST" format="Flash">
<cfformgroup type="panel" label="Multiple Line Example" width="250">
<cftextarea name="example" label="This label#chr(10)#is split over#chr(10)#multiple lines" required="yes"></cftextarea>
</cfformgroup>
</cfform>

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